Avigdor Arikha
(1929-2010), Artist and Art HistorianArtist of 2 portraits
Avigdor Arikha, born in Bukovina, a German-speaking part of Romania, survived the horrors of the Holocaust through the drawings he made as a young adolescent in the concentration camps. These came to the notice of the International Red Cross, which rescued him and helped him to reach a kibbutz in Palestine in 1944. After formal art training in Jerusalem, Arikha first came to Paris in 1949, where he mixed with the post-war Paris abstractionists and made lifelong friendships with Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti.
by Avigdor Arikha
graphite on primed brown paper, 1971
NPG 5100
by Avigdor Arikha
aquatint, 1973
NPG 6260
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